Join Us for the January Social
Music, both as a performance and as a topic of discussion, has always been a part of the annual TED conference in Long Beach but we haven’t had music as a TEDxMB theme—until now! The January Social...
View ArticleTEDxManhattanBeach – 2011 Conference
We are very excited to announce the theme and the speakers for the 2011 TEDxManhattanBeach Conference. The conference will be held on the evening of Thursday February 10, 2011. Theme – Vitality –...
View ArticleTED Active 2011
I just spent an amazing week at TED Active 2011 in Palm Springs. The conference was attended by around 500 people and there were over 160 TEDx Organizers from all over the world. If you want to get a...
View ArticleCognitive development in kids a dynamic process, says neuroscience expert
Two boys, Nico and Brooke, each suffered the removal of an entire brain hemisphere (Nico his right and Brooke his left) to control severe epilepsy — yet these boys became high-functioning young adults,...
View ArticleImpassioned school CEO boosts academics, self-esteem in So. L.A.
When you meet Dr. Yaw O. Adutwum his energy and impassioned committment to education immediately impresses you. An educator and community activist born in Ghana, he is today the founder and CEO of New...
View Article“Make IT Happen” winner weaves technology into education
Hall Davidson will speak at our TEDxMB conference on education on October 22, 2011. Davidson, winner of the prestigious “Make IT Happen” award, joined Discovery Education in 2005 and serves as Director...
View ArticleMessy is good, says d.school
Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft will joining us on Oct. 22nd to talk innovation in education. They are leaders at Stanford’s d.school (the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design), where Stanford students...
View ArticleRight-brain stimulation accelerates learning
Melanie West is an educational psychologist, the author of The Right Side of Learning and the founder of The Right Side of Learning program. “I started my career as a school psychologist for public...
View Article“High-level innovative thinking” at pilot school
Karen Hunter Quartz is Director of Research and Development of the UCLA Community School in Los Angeles. She’s a dynamic and accomplished educator with scores of awards and several books to her name....
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